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I am happy that payton is getting his... but I feel bad for the young fans.  honestly, i remember how rocked my boy was in 09 as he was old enough to know the rules of the game and to see that we were definitely getting hosed by the refs... a completely helpless feeling for him as well as for  me as a dad... I am sure there are dads and sons going through the same emtional gutting in nawlins and I honestly feel bad for them.

Before 09, the Saints were my second favorite team.

I had partied in that town quite a few times and I remember the Archie Manning days. I had a soft spot for their suffering. If they would have straight up beaten the Vikes that year, I would have been pulling for them then, and yesterday.

The way 09 played out, blatantly trying (and succeeding) to hurt our QB without getting a single sack is unforgivable to me.

Drew Brees is a Hall of Famer who seems to be a very decent human, but he knew what was going on before and after that game. He didn't care.

Not a single Saints fan cared that their team played dirty, in fact some of them are pissed that the NFL suspended those guys. Fuck Them. (yeah, I'm a little bitter LOL).

@"SouthCarolinaViking" said: Man, I'm loving this.

https://saintsreport.com/threads/i-dont-know-how-to-come-back-from-this.402117/

One poster talks about since the 09 season, the Saints have been cursed. San Fran, Minnesota and now the non-call.

I'm sitting at my desk at work, literally giggling out loud while reading some of these posts.

I was pissed off the whole game yesterday, thinking back to 09. Fox coverage talked about that year all game long and never once mentioned the suspension that followed (if they did, I didn't hear it).

Poetic Justice.

Yeah, what really pissed me off was they even showed Favre taking some brutal (illegal) hits, and talked about how the Aints absolutely demolished Favre which propelled them to their first Super Bowl win, but never once mentioned Bountygate and how they cheated their asses off and also benefited from about half a dozen completely bullshit calls in order to advance.

haha.

I'm done.

I love you all but I can't watch this crooked league any more.

Devastated.

The same crooked shit they loved the year they won...

I don’t feel sorry for any Saints fan, not even the young ones as they will eventually grow up to be adult Saints fans who will make more Saints fans. I have no doubt that there were exactly zero Saints fans feeling sorry for my kid in 2009. Welcome to your nightmare, NO. Wanna chat about ‘09 now?????

@"JimmyinSD" said: I am happy that payton is getting his... but I feel bad for the young fans.  honestly, i remember how rocked my boy was in 09 as he was old enough to know the rules of the game and to see that we were definitely getting hosed by the refs... a completely helpless feeling for him as well as for  me as a dad... I am sure there are dads and sons going through the same emtional gutting in nawlins and I honestly feel bad for them.

I look at this as a teachable moment.

"Come sit here Timmy. Here's a tissue.

See son, when you were 2 years old, our beloved Saints' coaches paid the players on the side if they would take cheap shots, late hits and try to intentionally hurt the important players on the other team. This was not only morally wrong, but also against NFL rules. Our beloved Saints did not care. Nor did the Great Saint Nation "Who Dat" fans. We got our Super Bowl trophy. Everything is good in the world.

Now Timmy, please let me explain to you about something called Karma, and it's not the name of our running back."

I'm convinced there is a gag order about Bountygate. A league fighting to convince the NFLPA and the world, especially parents of their future players, can't let that topic be raised.
Of course if the NFL had banned Payton and Greg Williams for life, they might not need to hide their hypocrisy.

EEEEEFFFFFF em-----watching them play up the 09 game with no mention of the crap they pulled ---eeeefff em each and every one young and old (they're whitewashing history  and those innocent youth will grow up thinking they honestly won in 09.)

on top of  all that they were saying aint fans even had whistles to try and mess up the rams O---that there should be a penalty(yell all ya want but mimicking the ref to throw off the game)  SHAME

Hey New Orleans,

Not one of them had the self-awareness (or the intellectual honesty) to admit that THEY won their only Super Bowl under similar circumstances (conspiracy theory and all)- except they were the beneficiaries of the terrible calls.  They really should shut the Farve up and accept that "The Refs giveth... and the Refs taketh away."  At least they got their Super Bowl (tainted as it is).

God I love this thread!! 

Even still this morning. I was hearing... They need to rectify this wrong. Heard one guy even saying the league should make the Rams forfeit the game...Baawaaahahaha!!!
So now this cheating dirty team is a victim? The team that was given a 1st down in OT in FG range on a Brees throw away they called PI. After cheating all game and being out played. Do any of these clowns remember? You do know coaches and players were suspended right??? Everyone of these clowns who are crying for Brees and the Saints today should apologize to Farve and us Viking fans 1st.
I'm with you Vikergirl. Suck it Saints!!!
A karma ran over your dogma. F you Saints!

Though this non call was fairly obvious, these refs have been terrible for a long time. Every team gets hosed by non calls. Sometimes several per game. It is more prevalent in the playoffs because the refs don't want to be the ones to determine the outcome. How ironic.
Reminds me of the Packers. The calls are fine when they go their way, but they cry like a skinned cat if they go against them.
The entire Saints organization can cry me a river. I'm rather enjoying it as justice served.
And no. I don't hate, nor have I ever skinned a cat. Lol!

Dudes.... WTF?!

We are Vikings.... We should invade that message board and pile on the misery!

Honestly this is the high point of the playoffs for me. Don't give a shit about the Super Bowl. Last years miracle. Now the Saint's feeling the misery of being hosed by the refs...priceless. Cry away it only makes it sweeter. Cry for 2 weeks till the game if you like. Please do actually.

Could you imagine if the Vikings had a bounty system in place?  Oh, wait...

Exerts from Gunslinger.

On September 8, 2008, a year before Brett Favre would join the organization, the Minnesota Vikings traveled to Lambeau Field to face the Green Bay Packers. Aside from being Aaron Rodgers’s debut as a starter, the game was noteworthy for its physicality and aggressiveness. In the first half alone, the teams combined for 12 penalties for 86 yards. It was a sloppy, messy, nasty affair, and in the days and weeks following the Packers’ 24–19 win, Minnesota’s coaches stewed. After watching the tape, they were convinced that Nick Barnett, Green Bay’s outstanding linebacker, had gone out of his way to injure Adrian Peterson, the Vikings halfback.
The rival franchises played again nine weeks later, and three days before kickoff a Minnesota coach stood up in a team meeting, mentioned Barnett by name, and said, “I will give $500 to anyone who takes this motherfucker out of the game.”
This was hardly a shocking move in the Vikings’ locker room, where piles of money were regularly collected—then distributed as rewards—for injuring opposing stars. “It was part of the culture,” said Artis Hicks, a Minnesota offensive lineman. “I had coaches start a pot and all the veterans put in an extra $100, $200, and if you hurt someone special, you get the money. There was a bottom line, and I think we all bought in: you’re there to win, and if taking out the other team’s best player helps you win, hey, it’s nothing personal. Just business.”
Although the Barnett affair occurred in 2008, Hicks insists the Vikings were no different a year later, when Brett Favre was quarterback. He recalled no one on the team complaining, nobody arguing with the approach. “This isn’t a game or culture for the fainthearted,” Hicks said. “You bleed, you suffer, you sacrifice, and if need be, you try and knock people out. It’s the NFL

Holy balls I am getting so much pleasure reading their forum.

haha

We got screwed. Nothing changes it. No one cares (outside of us) and
there's no putting the toothpaste back in the bottle. History favors the
victors and we lost. Just like no one really outside of bitter
Minnesota fans think Bounty Gate was real,

Cept maybe the NFL which investigated and banned Payton for a year? 

This was in the not so "Great Idea" thread about cancelling the superbowl.

https://saintsreport.com/threads/great-idea.402892/